The fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell has been honored with the Pushcart Prize, the AWP Award for Short Fiction, and Southern Reviewās Eudora Welty Prize. In this stunning collectionāa National Book Award finalistāCampbell paints unapologetically frank portraits of broken souls striving for redemption.
In rural Michigan, the American dream, if it ever existed, lies discarded like so much rusty scrap metal. For the inhabitants of Campbellās tales, the real truth of life can be found in industrial accidents, soul-deadening labor, and the comfort of five drinks too many. But even amid the despair of meth labs and
empty pocketbooks, Campbellās characters yearn for something, anything, to raise them above it allāand sometimes, impossibly, they find it.
āReaders ā¦ will feel salvaged and transformed by this gutsy bookās fierce compassion.āāBooklist, starred review